curse the darkness is a card-based, post-apocalyptic role-playing game. A mysterious individual summons forth monsters out of shadows, and puts the entire world under his own set of rules. Those rules are simple: Take care of one another. Ideology of any kind, be it religious, political, economical or even self-identifying, is outlawed and punishable by death. Society crumbles, and people band together into loose communities, while others - those able to Open gateways through shadows - travel around the world bringing supplies where they are needed.

Characters in the game die easily, and the memory of fallen characters can fuel the story on. Every story in the game presents the same essential choice: Do you acquiesce to this world? Try to live within it? Or do you try to fight, to change things? Do you light a candle, or curse the darkness?